In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.
References
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
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History
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Information
Published : 2018-01-04 04:29
Updated : 2024-02-28 16:04
NVD link : CVE-2017-18018
Mitre link : CVE-2017-18018
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-18018
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Products Affected
gnu
- coreutils
CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')